FRANCE 98 – Japan-Croatia – M. Blazevic: “Japan deserves our congratulations”

Comments from NANTES

“JAPAN deserves our congratulations. They’re a team that we know is tough and they proved it once again today. They also made sure it was a good game to watch. Nonetheless, we deserved to win. Now we’ve achieved our aim and we’re very proud to join the international elite. We mustn’t forget that CROATIA is a young country, which doesn’t have the experience of the big football nations. Physically, it was a very difficult match – SUKER (9), who’s one of our players who runs the least, lost four kilos. From now on anything’s possible, and we’re going to try to meet the challenge.”